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10/14/17 at 12:47 AM CDT

 

 

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MSG`#4469,`10/13/17
By LongTerm CapGains

 

Re: NOK pulling out of VR Biz

lt cap,

I already *almost* joined the ranks of the VR-smitten when I bought an Occulus Rift system from Best Buy a couple of months ago when the price was temporarily dropped to $399, and the Best Buy Bundle (headset, 2 touch controllers, 2 sensors plus a 9th 'Eve Online' game that the other bundles was lacking in the standard 8 game package that came with the bundle. Eve Online is otherwise a $50 piece of software. And I already owned 2 well rated games on Steam - Elite Dangerous (which I've been too fumble-fingered to master as a keyboard and mouse game to get through the tutorial) and Everspace, which I've wasted a lot of hours on so far - pretty cool game, all in all. Both games give you access to their Occulus VR versions simply for owning the 'regular' versions. 

However, I'm slightly loathe to admit publicly that I haven't had the time and focus to set up the Occulus bundle I have - both boxes are still sealed. So this announcement about the Occulus Go has me on the fence - I'd like to be able to compare what, besides glare reduction and a pc free tether the Go will bring - will it be more powerful or less? Will it come with a game bundle or no? 'Tether free' isn't making a whole lot of sense to me as I'd think you'd need the processing power of the CPU and especially GPU of your computer to render games and movies properly, but I could be missing something. 

And it may be that the details of 'Go' are not going to be available until we get closer to launch next year. If I get industrious, I'll probably just keep what I've got. If I still haven't set it up closer to launch, well, maybe I'll think about selling what I've got and get a 'Go.' But it's not of much consequence - I can lose or gain the price differential on very small movements of NOK, and that's a day to day fluctuation. I'll see. The only thing I see to be sold on is the idea of VR as an inevitable coming wave. Just hope when I actually *do* have a setup in place I'm not one of the people that become incurably nauseaus by the sensation, making it a no go for me :-)

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